Produced by Jel & Odd Nosdam via Anticon

“…c’mon, c’mon cousins, we’re gonna build a whole village right here. poom! and get married to supermodels. pbam! and have kids. bow! who star in movies. pwadadada!”

music and beats by Dose One and Jel

via Flavor$

First single from Mr. Dibb’s Dead World, courtesy of Fresherthan.com. Also available, your own cutesy dibbsy! In the form of a paper craft that you can download, print out, fold up and then…and then…look at! (I think that’s how those things work)

Mr. Dibbs – Knock, Knock ft. Dose One, Jel

Also, you might not want to miss his Groupie Hunter advice column, focusing on the Souveneir Groupie, the Hopeless Romantic Groupie and the Opportunist/Attention Whore Groupie, the latter of which apparently has an open mind for A2M, someone alert Byron, this might be a trend worth keeping an eye on, although maybe not too closely.

Bonus: 10 Reasons Why Dibbs wanted to get his ex deported

Peace to Peter Agoston for the info. link

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Veteran freestyler Doseone has plenty of wisdom to dole out on cyphers, crutches, “getting open” and the world beyond Lil Wayne, but as we observed, the schooling is hardly one way. Dose, Jel and fellow instructor Kev seem to be getting just as much from this circle of budding Oakland MCs (aged 12-18) as they’re giving out. Be sure to watch out for 13-year-old Tyrone—he spits fire!

peace to Tony Trimm

XLR8R comes up with this crazy wild idea to have producers make beats from records.

Jel and Odd Nosdam – AfternoonTune

XLR8R gave anticon. co-conspirators Jel and Odd Nosdam 40 bucks and challenged them to come up with a track in a single afternoon, made solely from records they found at a junk shop in West Berkeley, CA. Here, we follow them from junk shop to SP-1200 and, finally, to debuting the breezy, psychedelic afternoon masterpiece at their regular DJ night.

Themselves [ft. Aesop Rock, Busdriver, Why?/cLOUDDEAD - FREEHoudini / excerpt

"Oversleeping"
"Know That to Know This" [ft. Aesop Rock]
“Party Rap Sucks” [ft. Busdriver]
“Rappers Is Retired” freestyle
“theMark”
“rapping4money” [ft. WHY?, Odd Nosdam, and cLOUDDEAD]

“I’m writing you out of my blog”. lol.

Recorded straight from the sound board last month at the Anticon 10 Year Anniversary, peace to Peter Agoston. via Soleone.org

Jel & Odd Nosdam – Live @ NYC Knitting Factory

I don’t have to say anything except peep the lineup. This will be the last show at the Knitting Factory before they move to Brooklyn next year. More importantly, it will be the last show for the venue’s booking agent for all these crazy Hip-Hop shows over the past two years, Peter Agoston. Looking back, the big name acts he was able bring to such an intimate spot have been very impressive. The venue has hosted shows by the likes of Nice & Smooth, Boot Camp Clik, Gza, Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip, Jeru The Damaja, Cormega, Das Efx, Brand Nubian, The Beatnuts and many others. Not to mention the Knitting Factory was where I got to see a super rare NYC performance by the one and only Schoolly D! Big ups to Peter for holding it down over there. Oh yeah, don’t sleep. buy tickets

Friday, Dec 19, 2008 // DOORS 8:00 PM
ADV $30 // DOS $35

Knitting Factory – New York
74 Leonard Street
New York, NY 10013

The whole Anticon crew celebrating their 10 year anniversary for the third straight time. I guess they couldn’t wait till the next rounded number. This is only one of several great shows coming up at the Knitting Factory in December. buy tickets

Thursday, Dec 18, 2008 // DOORS 7:00 PM
ADV $20 // DOS $25

Knitting Factory – New York
74 Leonard Street
New York, NY 10013

Saturday, Sep 13, 2008 // DOORS 8:00 PM
ADV $15 // DOS $17

Knitting Factory – New York
74 Leonard Street
New York, NY 10013

Courtesy of Asthmatic Kitty. via UGSMAG

Interoceans Remixed

01. Interoceans I (Self Says Remix with Express Fresh)
02. Interoceans II (Jel Remix with Awol One and Serengeti)
03. Interoceans III (Ellul Remix with Radioinactive)
04. Interoceans IV (Omid Remix with Gajah and Bizzart)
05. Interoceans I (Sugarghost Remix)
06. Interoceans II (Strategy Remix)
07. Interoceans III (Badun Remix)
08. Interoceans IV (Greg Davis Remix)

previously:
I HEART LUNG feat. Awol One and Serengeti – Interoceans II (Jel Remix) / audio

Link, via

I HEART LUNG Feat. Awol One and Serengeti – Interoceans II (Jel Remix)

With its whispered intro and backwards hum, it might be hard to believe that the original “Interoceans II (Overturning)” is even more sleepy. But the track, by jazz/noise improvisers Chris Schlarb and drummer Tom Steck, finds its determined groove late in its 12 minutes. The Jel remix doesn’t have that kind of time: Awol One immediately starts with the chorus (“You built yourself a monster/Out of spare parts/And all kinds of pig hearts”) over the track’s lumbering beat and lapping ocean waves. The stereo-panned drumbeat and backwards synth line make the song a little queasy and uncomfortable, simmering under Awol’s accusations. As Awol One’s raspy and exhausted, Serengeti’s unrelenting and quick. Serengeti’s unrelenting delivery balances out Awol’s raspy talk-rap. He’s got a dozen similes for each of Awol’s metaphors, though his are inscrutable and scattershot while Awol One stays focused on an ex. Serengeti’s cut-up couplets take Awol’s chorus as a guiding principle—he sews his verse together out of spare lines, though what he builds isn’t quite as monstrous as you hope. – JESSICA SUAREZ

see also:
[video] Jel Sweet Creamin It (live bedroom mix)

Wow, has it really been almost ten years since Anticon started out? Looking back, I probably own every release until about 2002. The Centaur 12inch with 15 Minutes To Live on the flip-side. The dope Controller 7 remix of Rain Men. Man Overboard with the great cover art. Joyful Toy of 1001 Faces. Bottle Of Humans. Deep Puddle Dynamics. The list goes on and on. And the live performances were just as impressive. One of my all-time favorite shows was Sole, Alias, Josh Martinez and Sage Francis performing on a Brooklyn rooftop.

Anyway, good interview here. The collective of Why, Odd Nosdam, Dose-One, Jel, Sole and Alias sound off on a number of topics such as their past and current role at the label, the legacy of Anticon and a possible documentary in the works. Link

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the label about to turn ten? That seems a significant benchmark for an independent to reach, especially these days. Looking back on your achievements – both personally and collectively – are you pleased with how far you’ve travelled as a creative force?

Why: I’m quite pleased with the progress of the label. We went from an artist-run mess of a posse / collective / label who released basically only our own music in the late ‘90s to a real-deal label capable of releasing albums by anybody we find fit and willing, with a dedicated label manager and a decent sized base of listeners.

Jel: From working off of 4-track tape machines and recording on DAT and ADAT with minimal instrumentation in the music, to most of us forming live bands and focusing our careers on that aspect of music making. I think we all have really refined our skills as musicians and cracked the shell of ‘beat maker’, ‘rapper’ and ‘DJ’.

On record and in previous interviews I’ve read, you seem like a fairly headstrong collective; to what extent do you feel as though the label has succeeded in the music industry on its own terms?

Jel: Largely, and that reflects on the creative output very positively. But on the financial side it’s not so positive… sustainable.

Dose-One: Being DIY can become a bit of a barbed wire fence and being unique musically can be a bit of a glass ceiling. As a record label we want to not have any ‘keep out’ signs on our property or ‘stay put’ signs in our future. By and large, we have secured a way for our music to always see daylight and its way to headphones.

Sole: The machine dictates how the business is run: we’re slaves to release dates and the need for forms of marketing; it’s a constant uphill battle against the constraints the music industry places on anyone who wishes to run that gauntlet.

Alias: For the most part, anticon isn’t a business that is set up to take care of the artists 100 per cent of the time. You have to do a bit of your own hustling as well, which is absolutely fine by me. It has taught me a lot about the business, and that you have to give to get. You can’t just sit back and expect the label to handle everything for you. This has allowed me to have 100 per cent creative control with every aspect of my career. I don’t have a manager taking a percentage of money when I would be telling them what I want to do in the first place. I like handling my own business.

After what seems like a long hiatus between releases, Anticon affiliate and super-producer Jel is set to release his new album Soft Money in the coming months. For a limited time you can check out the first single, WMD, featuring none other than Wise Intelligent from the Poor Righteous Teachers. Don’t sleep. Peep the link for ordering information in Europe and for you US folks, the 12″ is available at Midheaven.

Jel & http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1208319949127010.xml&coll=5&thispage=1 – WMD